How I Wonder Who You Are
LABYRINTH CLUB
(3658 N PULASKI RD)
How I Wonder Who You Are
Can someone who’s blind still have vision?
As ridiculous as that sounds, what does it mean for us as a society when the vocabulary of vision is so deeply embedded into the English language? What does it mean to be able to bear witness? And what happens when that ability is taken away, both literally and figuratively?
Run Time: 45 minutes
Written & Performed by Gouri Bhuyan
Gouri Bhuyan is an Indian-born theater-maker, writer and actor, and still warming up to the notion of calling herself a performance artist. She is habitually gender-conforming, much to her chagrin, but authorially genre-nonconforming with absolute panache. As a visually-impaired artist, most of her performative work centers the disabled experience, making the discourse as inescapable as the reality of inhabiting a non-normative, female body. She places the disabled experience in dialogue with the multiplicity of her identities having grown up in postcolonial India, in an effort to unravel notions of privilege, power, access and the politics of identity. At any given moment, she considers herself to be a chronically hilarious individual, making comedy, satire, irony and the ensuing discomfort, her primary medium of expression.
In the recent past, Gouri’s one-woman play Cursed like Cupid won the award for Outstanding New Writing at India’s biggest youth theater festival, Thespo 2022, and also earned her a nomination for Outstanding performer in a Lead Role. Prior to graduating with her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago earlier this year, she holds an MA in Psychology from the University of Mumbai.
Photo credit: Ji Yang
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